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Askance


 * Gender: Female


 * Species: Marlfox


 * Weaponry: Single-bladed axe, noose.


 * Clothing: A belt made from hide of the ex-slave leader of the Isle of Marl, Seryn Shieldback. She refuses to wear the traditional Marlfox cloak on the field, deeming it too heavy, long and cumbersome to be of any use to her outside of a rainstorm or a castle-And said castle isn't hers. Yet.


 * Appearance: Tall and slender as a willow, with mottled silver-white fur and pale-yellow eyes. Her belt hangs loosely about her slim waist, with the axe thrust securely into the belt's sheath handle-first. The belt itself has numerous, hard-to-make-out symbols etched into the leather. Askance has a small scar beneath her right eye, from when she ran into a branch during her small, bleak childhood.


 * Backstory: Askance was born to Predak, last of the Marlfoxes, and a little-known, bloodthirsty fox mercenary, Zyran. Many a night Predak told her daughter of her near-fatal experience falling from the walls of the Red Wall Abbey, of how she had spent eight seasons wandering and recuperating after the loss of her whole family, of the day she learned that slaves and treacherous Waterrats had seized her home. She learned the ways of stealth and murder, how to swing an axe and trick a beast into doing anything she could ever want. And when she finally came of age, the first thing she did was gather an army. The second thing she did was capture and execute the hedgehog Seryn Shieldback, son of Primrose, and skin him. The third thing she did was lay siege to Marl. Any prisoners she takes, she kills. No need to take second chances.